Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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Lake Michigan Sunset? No. Late Chicago afternoon. With a lot of human clutter.
A Lake Michigan sunset picture needs to be taken somewhere between Warren Dunes and Sleeping Bear dunes, with a vast lake Michigan allowing for a sunset that rivals vast scenes of the Pacific.
I will confess that this title is on the banal side, but is nonetheless accurate–it was taken as the sun was setting, and that is Lake Michigan in the foreground.
Were I to visit a planetarium and I was focused and minding my p’s and q’s, at some some point I would screw up and say “planet-arium” a la that South Park episode.
I’ve internalized it for some unknown reason. I know the proper pronunciation, but “planet…arium” amuses me somehow.
I’d never heard the word “anathema” spoken and had assumed the incorrect pronunciation (think Anna thema) and used it in a work setting and dude corrected me in a more tham semi-condescinding way. Don’t get me wrong, I do not mind being corrected, but guy was a douche about it. It was okay; I already knew he was a grasping MBA type. Still, it stung to be corrected by a total tool.
Was that taken from a boat, or the planetarium?
thanks again Steven
@Guarneri: Via boat.
Good stuff!
It’s a beautiful picture. Many a time have a sat on that little peninsula looking back at the city.
@Guarneri: It is a beautiful location.
Nice Picture? Yes.
Lake Michigan Sunset? No. Late Chicago afternoon. With a lot of human clutter.
A Lake Michigan sunset picture needs to be taken somewhere between Warren Dunes and Sleeping Bear dunes, with a vast lake Michigan allowing for a sunset that rivals vast scenes of the Pacific.
That’s a Lake Michigan Sunset.
https://www.google.com/search?q=sunset+over+lake+michigan&tbm=isch&source=hp&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjx2v37t6vkAhVWj54KHRTNAbIQsAR6BAgHEAE&biw=1093&bih=498&dpr=1.25
@michigander:
Uh, er, I think the skyline was the point. Your talking Michiana. But I’ll see your Michiana sunset and raise you the west side of Door County.
@michigander: Well, I name ’em what I name ’em.
I will confess that this title is on the banal side, but is nonetheless accurate–it was taken as the sun was setting, and that is Lake Michigan in the foreground.
Planet-arium
h/t South Park
Were I to visit a planetarium and I was focused and minding my p’s and q’s, at some some point I would screw up and say “planet-arium” a la that South Park episode.
I’ve internalized it for some unknown reason. I know the proper pronunciation, but “planet…arium” amuses me somehow.
I’d never heard the word “anathema” spoken and had assumed the incorrect pronunciation (think Anna thema) and used it in a work setting and dude corrected me in a more tham semi-condescinding way. Don’t get me wrong, I do not mind being corrected, but guy was a douche about it. It was okay; I already knew he was a grasping MBA type. Still, it stung to be corrected by a total tool.
@de stijl: Reminds me of the first time I used the word “hyperbole” out loud (hyper-bowl).
@Steven L. Taylor:
It does sting, doesn’t it?
Decades later and you remember as if it happened yesterday.
I blame the Greeks and their counter-intuitve pronunciation patterns.
Also: epitome.